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authorMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>2014-01-23 14:39:29 -0500
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2014-05-13 13:59:42 +0200
commit2b984ea1f20cdd2eb84879defa4df9ebe85ce680 (patch)
treefc4d10974db8b303fa07cc9fe572803084b1a0b8 /Documentation/fb/deferred_io.txt
parent27dd47db1ba11a6f34d158a7dfa4c5bd78f81d1f (diff)
framebuffer: fix cfb_copyarea
commit 00a9d699bc85052d2d3ed56251cd928024ce06a3 upstream. The function cfb_copyarea is buggy when the copy operation is not aligned on long boundary (4 bytes on 32-bit machines, 8 bytes on 64-bit machines). How to reproduce: - use x86-64 machine - use a framebuffer driver without acceleration (for example uvesafb) - set the framebuffer to 8-bit depth (for example fbset -a 1024x768-60 -depth 8) - load a font with character width that is not a multiple of 8 pixels note: the console-tools package cannot load a font that has width different from 8 pixels. You need to install the packages "kbd" and "console-terminus" and use the program "setfont" to set font width (for example: setfont Uni2-Terminus20x10) - move some text left and right on the bash command line and you get a screen corruption To expose more bugs, put this line to the end of uvesafb_init_info: info->flags |= FBINFO_HWACCEL_COPYAREA | FBINFO_READS_FAST; - Now framebuffer console will use cfb_copyarea for console scrolling. You get a screen corruption when console is scrolled. This patch is a rewrite of cfb_copyarea. It fixes the bugs, with this patch, console scrolling in 8-bit depth with a font width that is not a multiple of 8 pixels works fine. The cfb_copyarea code was very buggy and it looks like it was written and never tried with non-8-pixel font. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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